Try...

=LEN(D5)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(D5,",",""))

Hope this helps!

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"Ron" wrote:

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if there is an excel built in function
that will count the number of occurences of a character in
a cell? For example, if cell D5 is "11,2,35,4" and I want
to count the number of commas in the cell, the result
should be 3.

thanks
Ron